The Original Buckeye Cook Book And Practical Housekeeping : A Compilation Of Choice And Carefully Tested Recipes

Wilcox, Estelle W.

St. Paul, 1905


$62.00 USD
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Hardcover, 689 pages, 6x9 in, [15.5x23 cm], B&W illustrations.

Condition

Rear hinge cracked, exposing the mull. Rear blank endpaper with pencil annotations referencing useful pages, corresponding pages neatly marked in pencil. Frontispiece torn. Remnants of an unidentified printed sheet adhering to the front pastedown. Light staining and age toning throughout. Covers worn and stained.

Notes

The Publishers Notice reads, ""The Buckeye Cook Book" needs no introduction. After going through nine editions and reaching a sale of over one million copies we offer a new Trade Edition of the original and only "Buckeye Cook Book" in a new and attractive binding which we feel assured will make the book more popular than ever."

A comprehensive domestic manual comprising forty-four chapters, a preface, and an index, extending to 689 pages. Covers all aspects of household management and practical cookery, from breadmaking and confectionery to preserving, pickling, and meats and gravies, with additional sections on the dining room, household hints, and the management of the flower garden. A wide-ranging compilation of “choice and carefully tested recipes,” intended as a complete guide to the running of an efficient household at the turn of the twentieth century.